GOP senator slams ‘radical leftist’ Tim Walz for ‘getting married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square’

Republican Senator Ron Johnson attacked Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz over his ties to China, claiming it’s a red flag that the “radical leftist” got married “on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.”

Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, the Wisconsin lawmaker and member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate: “She’s a radical leftist. She chose another radical leftist. They’re just assuming the mainstream media is not going to cover his background.

“The House is going to investigate it now — it’s very strange. He got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. He’s gone to China. He’s taught in China. He’s got deep connections to China.”

Donald Trump’s conservative allies have tried hard to attack the Minnesota governor on a range of issues since he was chosen by Vice President Harris to join her on the Democratic ticket earlier this month, angered by Walz’s repeated attacks on Trump and his deputy JD Vance as “weird.”

The former high school teacher has been pilloried over his response to the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in Minneapolis in response to the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 (despite then-President Trump praising his actions at the time), over his progressive policies on free meals and tampons in public schools and, outrageously, over his 24-years of service with the Army National Guard, accusing Walz of “stolen valor” by alleging, wrongly, that he chose to run for Congress in 2005 to avoid deployment to Iraq with his battalion.

None of that has stuck but Walz’s connection to China remains a persistent line of attack, a thin basis on which to accuse the Midwesterner of